We are proud of the external recognition we have gained through the awards we have won around the world. Below is a selection of our recent wins.
| Awarding body | Award | Year |
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| International Law Office | Client Choice (international and US) | 2013 |
| Acritas' sharplegal | Ranked no.1 in Canadian Law Firm brand index | 2013 |
| Corporate Board Member and FTI Consulting, Inc | Top 25 Corporate Law Firm in the US | 2013 |
| BTI Consulting Group | BTI Client Service 30 | 2013 |
| BTI Consulting Group, 2013 | BTI Brand Elite 18 | 2013 |
| U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers | “Law Firm of the Year” in the category of trademark law | 2013 |
| Corporate INTL Legal Awards | TMT Law Firm of the Year in the UAE | 2013 |
| Finance Monthly - Law Awards | Dispute resolution Law Firm of the Year - Bahrain | 2013 |
| MPF Awards for Management Excellence | Exceptional Achievement Award | 2013 |
| Islamic Finance News (IFN) Awards Law Poll | Energy and Natural Resources Law Firm of the Year | 2013 |
| EuroMoney Islamic Finance Awards | Best Legal Adviser | 2013 |
| Trade Finance Awards | Best Commodity Trade Finance Law Firm | 2012 |
| Acritas' sharplegal | Top 10 global elite brand index | 2012 |
| Super Lawyers | Listed 13 of our lawyers as “Super Lawyers” (US) | 2012 |
| Chambers Global | Law Firm of the Year: Africa | 2012 |
| Global Trade Review | Best Trade Finance Law Firm in Africa | 2012 |
| Global Transport Finance Awards | Legal House of the Year | 2012 |
| British Legal Awards | Peter Martyr, Law Firm Leader of the Year | 2012 |
| City A.M. | Law Firm of the Year | 2012 |
| Trade Finance Awards | Best Trade Law Firm in Asia | 2012 |
| Chambers Women in Law Awards, Latin America | Best Gender Diversity Initiative in Venezuela | 2012 |
| The Lawyer Awards | Competition/Regulatory Team of the Year | 2012 |
| Legal Week Employee Satisfaction Report | Employer most lawyers would like to work for | 2012 |
| Who’s Who Legal Awards | Mining Law Firm of the Year | 2012 |
| Islamic Finance News (IFN) Awards Law Poll | Energy and Natural Resources Law Firm of the Year | 2012 |
| International Law Office | Client Choice Award (international category) | 2012 |
| International Law Office | Employer of Choice for Women, Australia | 2012 |
| Acquisition International Legal Awards | Environmental Law Firm of the Year - UK | 2011 |
| Asia Legal Business | Employer of Choice- international law firm category for Singapore | 2011 |
| Client Satisfaction Report, Legal Week | Top five international firm for client satisfaction | 2011 |
| Employee Satisfaction Report, Legal Week | No.1 Law firm where most lawyers would like to work | 2011 |
| EOWA (Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency) | Diversity Leader for the Advancement of Women | 2011 |
| Euromoney LMG's Women in Business Law Awards | Best international firm for Talent Management (Talent in the pipeline- TIP) | 2011 |
| EOWA (Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency) | Employer of Choice for Women, Australia | 2011 |
| Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards | Best legal advisory firm | 2011 |
| Expatriate Management and Mobility Awards | Global Mobility Team of the Year (Under 250 assignees) | 2011 |
| Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards | Innovation in international expansion | 2011 |
| Global Competition Review | Highly commended Canadian law firm | 2011 |
| Global Competition Review | Leading Canadian firm | 2011 |
| International Takaful Summit Awards | Best International Law Firm | 2011 |
| International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration Lawyers | Leading Canadian firm | 2011 |
| International Who's Who of Life Sciences Lawyers | Leading Canadian firm | 2011 |
| Islamic Finance News | Best Law Firm in Islamic Finance | 2011 |
| Law 360 | Global 20 ranked 3rd | 2011 |
| Legal Business | Energy & Natural Resources Team of the Year | 2011 |
| Legal Business | Insurance Team of the Year | 2011 |
| PLC Life Sciences Handbook | Canadian firm recognised in Life Sciences | 2011 |
| Sukuk Summit Awards | Outstanding contribution by a Law Firm to Islamic Finance Services | 2011 |
| The Lawyer Awards | Law Firm of the Year | 2011 |
| The Lawyer Awards | 2nd Competition/Regulatory Team of the Year | 2011 |
| Trade Finance | Best commodity/trade finance law firm | 2011 |
| Trade Finance | Best trade finance law firm in Asia | 2011 |
| Transatlantic Elite Survey, The Lawyer | Global 50 international law firm | 2011 |
| Jane's Transport Finance | Legal House of the Year | 2011, 2010 |
| Awarding body | Award | Deal | Year |
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| EuroMoney Islamic Finance Awards | Best Islamic project finance deal | The US$1.2bn expansion of Madinah Airport (PPP). The deal has been widely recognised as a landmark project in terms of size, importance and innovation in the region. | 2013 |
| Property Awards | Deal of the Year | The £400m sale of Battersea Power Station to SP Setia Berhad, Sime Darby Berhad and Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia. | 2013 |
| EuroMoney Islamic Finance Awards | Best Islamic Finance Real Estate Deal | Kings Reach Tower - A syndicate of Middle Eastern banks led by ABC International Bank plc, on a senior Shariah compliant facility to Kings Reach Estates Limited, for a £400 million development financing for redevelopment and refurbishment of the Kings Reach Tower in Southwark, London. | 2013 |
| Islamic Finance News | Structured Finance Deal of the Year | The US$170m Islamic project finance facility for the construction of a newbuild LNG carrier by a wholly owned subsidiary of Brunei Gas Carriers. | 2013 |
| Project Finance International awards | European Petrochemicals Deal of the Year | Surgil, the US$4bn gas-to petrochemicals project in the Republic of Uzbekistan. This was Uzbekistan's first oil and gas project financing and the largest downstream project financing in the CIS region. | 2012 |
| Trade Finance | ETG - structured trade facilities Deal of the Year | A $100 million borrowing base facility and a $150 million collateral management agreement facility provided to Export Trading Group Pre Limited Singapore (ETG), coordinated by Standard Bank of South Africa. | 2012 |
| Project Finance International awards 2012 | Middle East and Africa Infra Deal of the Year | The US$1.2 bn expansion of Madinah Airport in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | 2012 |
| Global Trade Review | One of the "Best Deals" of 2012 | The pre-export financing of Fiji Sugar by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). | 2012 |
| Trade and Forfaiting Review | Deals of the Year | The pre-export financing of Fiji Sugar by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). | 2012 |
| Trade and Forfaiting Review | Deal of the Year | The structured steel pre-export finance (PXF) loan to China-based Tangshan Iron & Steel Group Co (Tangsteel, one of the largest steel manufacturing state-owned enterprises in China). | 2012 |
| Project Finance International awards | Middle East and Africa Africa Renewables Deal of the Year | Lesedi & Letsatsi solar parks - These are just two of the 28 projects that were awarded preferred bidder status in the first bid phase of the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (IPP) Procurement Programme. | 2012 |
| The Banker | African deals of the year: Equities | The US$150 million listing on London's AIM market of Zambeef Products. Zambeef is one of the largest agri-businesses in Zambia and also has operations in Nigeria and Ghana. It is the first Zambian incorporated, Lusaka listed company to dual-list in London. | 2012 |
| Project Finance Magazine | European Shadow Toll Road of the Year | A8 II - the first major German road infrastructure project to reach financial close since the global financial crisis. | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | African Renewables Deal of the Year | Addax Bioenergy - the first bio-energy project to be brought to financial close in Africa and the largest post-conflict agricultural project to be developed in Sierra Leone. | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | European Government Accomodation Deal of the Year | BMBF - the first civil Public Private Partnership (PPP) at the federal level to close in Germany. | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | African Mining deal of the Year | The US$205m term loan and cost overrun and working capital facility to Discovery Copper Botswana (Proprietary) Limited for the development of the Boseto copper and silver project in the Ngamiland district of Botswana. | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | African Telecoms Deal of the Year | The largest project financing in Nigeria for Etisalat Nigeria. The US$650 million transaction was funded by EMTS and a consortium of banks – First Bank, Zenith Bank, Access Bank, Fidelity Bank, UBA, Oceanic Bank (now Ecobank), GTB and Bank PHB (now Keystone). | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | European Biomass Deal of the Year | Helius CoRDe, the first ever biomass project to use whisky by-products to fuel a 7.2 MW biomass combined heat and power plant in Scotland. | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | European Onshore Deal of the Year | Jadraas Vindkraft, the largest project financing of a wind farm in Sweden supported by EKF, the Danish export credit agency, and Danish pension fund PensionDanmark. | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | African Power Deal of the Year | KivuWatt, the methane to power project that is Rwanda’s first independent power project, first project financing and largest single private investment. | 2011 |
| Project Finance Magazine | European Ports Deal of the Year | London Gateway, the £2bn, 1500 acre container port and adjacent logistics park development at London Gateway. | 2011 |
| Airfinance Journal awards | Editor's Deal of the Year Award | The deal involving Doric Asset Finance on the financing of three Airbus A380 aircraft for Emirates using a publicly listed vehicle in the UK and Guernsey. | 2011 |
| Airfinance Journal awards | African Deal of the Year Award | The deal involving the sale and leaseback of seven Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft for South African Express. | 2011 |
| Airfinance Journal awards | Latin American Deal of the Year Award | The deal involving Natixis Transport Finance in the Japanese Operating Lease with Call Option (JOLCO) financing of an Airbus A321 aircraft for the Brazilian airline TAM. | 2011 |
| Australasian Legal Business | Project finance deal of the year | The US$600m financing of Anshan Iron and Steel Company Limited (Ansteel) (as joint venture partner with Gindalbie Metals Ltd. | 2011 |